The announcement that the city would sue for recovery on the performance bond was made by City Solicitor David Berger at a press conference following a meeting in the morning with Wagner and other officials of the city and the PTC as well as representatives of an engineering firm that was pulled off the El project before its completion in 1959.

The contract violations mostly involve failure to perform rehabilitation work on expansion joints along the El track.

Douglas M. Pratt, president of the PTC, who attended the meeting, said the transit company is reviewing the work on the El.

In philosophy and the humanities, Jacques Derrida, the father of deconstruction, was born in El Biar in Algiers ; Malek Bennabi and Frantz Fanon are noted for their thoughts on decolonization ; Augustine of Hippo was born in Tagaste ( modern-day Souk Ahras ); and Ibn Khaldun, though born in Tunis, wrote the Muqaddima while staying in Algeria.

Park Güell ( ) is a garden complex with architectural elements situated on the hill of El Carmel in the Gràcia district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

In 1986, U. S. President Ronald Reagan ( who survived an assassination attempt himself ) ordered the Operation El Dorado Canyon air raid on Libya in which one of the primary targets was the home residence of Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi.

Charlton on the cover of the Argentina | Argentinian sports magazine El Gráfico on 27 June 1962

** El Salvador Customs union, ( 1963, re-launched on October 29, 1993 )

Police officer on a bicycle in El Salvador.

alt = An adult cane toad with dark colouration, as found in El Salvador: The parotoid gland is prominently displayed on the side of the head.

It is in the El Paso Independent School District, located on Fort Bliss property, and serves a portion of Fort Bliss.

On August 7, 1912, the Department broke ground on its first construction project, the section of El Camino Real between South San Francisco and Burlingame ( now part of California State Route 82 ).

El Salvador is the smallest Central American country in area and is the only one without a coastline on the Caribbean sea.

El Salvador, along with the rest of Central America, is one of the most seismologically active regions on earth, situated atop three of the large tectonic plates that constitute the Earth's surface.

North of El Salvador, Mexico and most of Guatemala are riding on the westward-moving North American Plate that butts against the northern edge of the stationary Caribbean Plate in southern Guatemala.

The volcanic soil is rich, and much of El Salvador's coffee is planted on these slopes.

The Cerron Grande Dam on the Rio Lempa has created a large reservoir, the Embalse Cerron Grande, in northern El Salvador.

El Salvador is party to the Convention on Biological Diversity, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, CITES, Basel Convention, Partial Test Ban Treaty, Montreal Protocol, Ramsar Convention.

El Salvador has signed, but not ratified the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.

The change to the dollar also precipitated a trend toward lower interest rates in El Salvador, helping many to secure credit in order to buy a house or a car ; over time, displeasure with the change has largely disappeared, though the issue resurfaces as a political tool when elections are on the horizon.

El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua also are negotiating a free trade agreement with Canada, and negotiations started on 2006 for a free trade agreement with Colombia.

The Department of State maintains a Country Commercial Guide for U. S. businesses seeking detailed information on business opportunities in El Salvador.

The tropical Atlantic ocean experiences depressed activity due to increased vertical wind shear across the region during El Niño years .< ref > On the flip side however, the tropical Pacific Ocean east of the dateline has above normal activity during El Niño years due to well above average water temperatures and decreased windshear.

His son Sancho II of Castile wanted to reunite the kingdom of his father and attacked his brothers, with a young noble at his side: Rodrigo Díaz ( later known as El Cid Campeador ).

Indeed, El Cid's first battle experience was gained fighting for a Muslim state against a Christian state, at the Battle of Graus in 1063, where he and other Castilians fought on the side of al-Muqtadir, Muslim sultan of Zaragoza, against the forces of Ramiro I of Aragon.

A number of major thoroughfares run north-south: El Camino Real ( SR 82 ) and US 101 on the east side along the bay, Interstate 280 down the center, Skyline Boulevard ( SR 35 ) along the crest of the Santa Cruz Mountains, and Highway 1 on the west along the Pacific.

The Spanish side of the Strait is protected under El Estrecho Natural Park.

Statues of King David and Solomon stand on either side of the entrance to the basilica of El Escorial, Philip's palace, and Solomon is also depicted in a great fresco at the center of El Escorial's library.

The northern side of the depression is characterised by steep escarpments up to 280 meters high, marking the edge of the adjacent El Diffa plateau.

* The Baja California Desert extends east of the Peninsular Ranges along the Pacific side of the peninsula for most of its length, and includes the El Vizcaíno Desert and El Vizcaíno Biosphere Reserve.

As the Bayshore Freeway was built along the east side of the San Francisco peninsula in the early 1950s, old U. S. 101 along the El Camino Real was posted as U. S. 101 Alternate or 101-a, and the freeway was marked U. S. 101-Bypass or 101-B.

Around 10, 000 to 12, 000 people, mostly Frenchmen, tempted by stories of an El Dorado on the other side of the ocean, settled in Kourou.

El Día ’ s morning headline on October 3, 1968 read as followed: “ Criminal Provocation at the Tlatelolco Meeting Causes Terrible Bloodshed .” The government-controlled media dutifully reported the Mexican government ’ s side of the events that night, but the truth eventually emerged.

The part of Granite Hills within the city of El Cajon consists of a " gerrymandered " corridor, approximately wide on the south side of Madison Avenue, roughly through the center of the neighborhood.

El Granada is located at ( 37. 503766 ,-122. 473230 ), on the less densely populated Pacific coast side of San Mateo County, approximately south of San Francisco and north of Santa Cruz, California.

El Rio is a small unincorporated census-designated town in Ventura County, California, USA, on the northeast side of the 101 Freeway and Oxnard, and south of the Santa Clara River.

Las Cruces is the economic and geographic center of the fertile Mesilla Valley, which is the agricultural region on the flood plain of the Rio Grande which extends from Hatch, New Mexico to the west side of El Paso, Texas.

A poll in the magazine El Gráfico saw dozens of experts from South America and Europe choose as the world champion best team of all time the Santos side of 1962 / 63, whose time-base was formed by Gylmar, Lima, Mauro, Calvet and Dalmo ; Mengálvio and Zito, Dorval, Coutinho, Pele and Pepe.

Statues of David and Solomon on either side of the entrance to the basilica of El Escorial lend further weight to the theory that this is the true origin of the design.

In January 2005, the show's original set at LA's famed El Capitan Theatre, which had video screens in the background and the band performing on the left side of the stage, was replaced with the current set, which has a city in the background.

The city of El Paso built the first El Paso Municipal Airport near the east side of the Franklin Mountains in 1928.

San Lorenzo de El Escorial, also known as El Escorial de Arriba is a town and municipality in the Community of Madrid, Spain, located to the northwest of the region in the southeastern side of the Sierra de Guadarrama, at the foot of Mount Abantos and Las Machotas, from Madrid.